you can also write your own telnet client that can establish FTP sessions on
the fly. In perl it would be simple, I wrote a pritty nice FTP server in
about a day or so.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Westman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "beginners" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 3:56 PM
Subject: RE: Help! Telnet-->FTP
> Seems such a shame to have to call perl from the command line or (last
> resort), run FTP using the shell.
>
> Your explanation makes sense. What a pain!
>
>
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:29:06 -0800 (PST), Jeff Westman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I need help!
> > >
> > > I am connecting to a remote server using Net::Telnet. I am then
running
> > some
> > > programs, which works fine. Now I need to send the results back to
the
> > local
> > > server that established the connection.
> > >
> > > #----- start
> > > $t = new Net::Telnet (Input_Log => "__debug_log" );
> > > ...
> > > print "Attempting FTP from $store to $local\n";
> > > @result = $t->cmd( $ftp = Net::FTP->new($local) );
> > > #----- end
> > >
> > > When this completes, it executes the following on the remote server:
> > >
> > > $ Net::FTP=GLOB(0x4027a304)
> > > ksh: syntax error: `(' unexpected
> > > $
> > >
> > > Maybe I am doing this wrong, but I am attempting to create an ftp
object
> > in
> > > the middle of a telnet call.
> > >
> >
> > Ah the "beauty" of a client/server environment. The parameter you pass
to
> > the 'cmd' of the Telnet object is a program (command line) to run in the
> > shell of the external connection. So you are telling it to run the
command
> > Net::FTP=GLOB, etc. which is not a command. So to FTP from the remote
> > location either you have to call an ftp client on the remote location on
> > the command line, or you could do something really hokey like calling
perl
> > with the -e operator and passing all of your code over to the perl as a
one
> > liner, this naturally requires Perl to be installed on the remote
location.
> > Essentially all of this is VERY ugly and a pain in the butt, but it can
be
> > done. In fact we are doing this over an SSH connection, but it ain't
pretty
> > let me tell ya (and I didn't write it).
> >
> > http://danconia.org
> >
>
>
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